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...liberals is being circulated in ultra-rightist circles, and terrorists openly boast that "this time we will stage summary executions ourselves." In the garrison town of Castiglione, 25 miles from Algiers, a hundred junior officers met in secret to discuss how they could best save the idea of "Algérie Francaise." The army high command, which last January promised to keep pro-ultra paratroopers out of Algiers last week moved a paratroop regiment into the city for "rest after operations...
...Algeria's 1,000,000 "French" settlers, who had learned from their defeat last January that spontaneous violence is no substitute for political organization in depth. Setting up headquarters in a hardware store opposite Algiers' town hall, right-wing settlers formed a new "Front de l'Algérie Francaise" dedicated to "keeping Algeria in the Republic," within three days declared they had signed up 100,000 members-including several hundred army officers. Threatened Algerian Deputy René Vinciguerra: "Let De Gaulle see Ferhat Abbas in Paris. We don't mind. But the minute he allows...
...shelled out $150 a ticket only to find themselves at a party snubbed by its hoped-for guest of honor. (Said an aide: "The general does not like to attend empty social affairs.") And for a touchy moment or two, pickets carried placards crying "Libérez l'Algérie," but minus his eyeglasses the nearsighted general never noticed...
...question of state aid to Catholic schools has passionately dogged every French government since, including De Gaulle's Fifth Republic. Last week, when the government finally sent to the National Assembly a draft bill offering conditional aid to parochial schools, the guerre scolaire-and not the guerre Algérienne-once again became the most emotional issue in France...
...France itself, rabid right-wingers quickly formed a new political group, the Rassemblement pour I'Algèrie Française, intent on narrowing the alternatives offered by De Gaulle to one: complete "Francization" of Algeria. But on a tour through northern France last week, it was evident that Charles de Gaulle had France's masses behind him. In town after town, workers and farmers cheered as the general ringingly declared: "I am sure the French people have approved the determination to solve the Algerian problem by the heart, the soul and free vote of the inhabitants...